Adnan Çabuk, born on January 10, 1944 in Mardin, comes from a big family of around 15 thousand members spread all around the world.
Education – attended Primary School in Mardin, worked to support his family and education through Middle and High school in Diyarbakir and Ankara.
During his middle and high school education he was a part of the “gymnastics” group of the Ankara region for four years.
He was a founding member of the “First Acrobatics team of Türkiye and himself an acrobatic parachutist. He also is a certified “Glider” (Planor).
He was a Fine Arts student of Adnan Çoker’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul and simultaneously he modeled for “Vakko”, and played pantomime with Oğuz Aral.
Adnan Çabuk became the precursor of the popular Hippie movement of the time in Türkiye and he headed a European Hippie group with whom he hitch-hiked Europe.
Worked as a fashion model and a fashion coordinator in London and New York. Some 15-20 years of his life was spent in Sweden, London, Beirut, Italy, USA and India working and researching. He first encountered “YOGA” while teaching aerobics, Chinese yoga and Tai Chi Chuan in YMCA – New York. From then on his interest shifted to Spirituality and YOGA.
His thirst for Spiritual knowledge grew as he traveled to different countries in the Far East (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Japan, Srilanka, Nepal, Tibet ) and finally India where he researched and studied Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Tantric Yoga.
He got his first certificate as a yoga instructor at the Swami Sivananda School. Then, at Dr. Kurup ‘s “Sanjivani Holistic Farm” where he trained for Holistic healing.
He furthered his studies and became a disciple of Guruji Dr. Ananth Atre. from whom he learned “Kundalini Yoga”, its principles and was given a hand (authority or blessing) to teach.
He learned the system of “Live food Diet” from the world famous American Dr. Ann Wigmore who deals with Fresh and Raw Food Healings, which was more focused on cancer patients.
He continues on his spiritual search and study a few months every year in India.
During his time Turkey, he teaches Spiritual YOGA to aspirants and gives Teacher’s certificate to those who are ready to share the knowledge of Yoga.
While I was teaching aerobics at the New York YMCA, my excessive trainings injured my knees. It was at that time that my inner voice taught me to start Yoga.
While I was teaching Yoga at Club Patara in Kalkan (Turkey), I realized how important it was to teach Yoga in a conscious and knowledgeable manner. I started my journey to find the knowledgeable guides on Yoga. I had the ultimate privilege of learning from my various teachers, healers, gurus and masters all over India and in the Far East. During this deep apprenticeship period of my life which lasted 10 years, I was living 6 months in India, 3 months in Kalkan and 2 months in the United States.
In 1996 I followed my inner voice who led me to teach Yoga in Istanbul. During 2 consecutive years, I taught Yoga in Istanbul and outside the metropolis, seven days a week, sometimes 4-5 classes a day.
In 1997 i established and founded a Yoga school which I named after one of my Guru’s school SIDDASHRAM YOGA CENTER.
An Ashram is a place where the Guru lives and teaches. SIDDASHRAM means the metaphysical heaven where enlightened Guru’s souls travel, after they leave their earthly bodies. My middle name “Siddviho” comes from “Sidd” as a homage to Buddha’s Siddhartha, also from the derivative word of “Siddha” meaning accomplished or ready, while “Viho” is the spiritual name of a native American chief from the Sioux tribe, which I had a luck and chance to stay as a guest for a few days. My goal for SIDDASHRAM, above all is to be able to serve mankind even to the extent if I may the whole of Creation as well as, I voluntarily to be able to share the same path, to those who are willing to expand their awareness and spiritual well-being through my knowledge and experiences in Classical Spiritual Yoga.
